Rodgers / Jets (2024 version)

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

It will be interesting to see where he ends up. I can't imagine him voluntarily retiring. He likes the attention way too much. Maybe RFK Jr. will give him a job in HHS where he can do press conferences and get the attention he craves (the fact that I can type that and it's not even a joke is surreal).

Maybe he starts his own podcast or signs to be on Mcafee for even more time.

He'll have to wait until after the draft to see who may need a QB otherwise.

AR will have a hard time walking away from the spotlight agree. And his ego also doesn’t want this last year to be the kind of season he ends his career on either.

Now he may not have many options for a starting gig, but all it takes is 1 owner who’s convinced he can look like the AR of a few years ago.

I wonder what Shanahan thinks of him.

As soon as he's cut the Queens will come calling, mark it down.

@DurangoDoug posted:

As soon as he's cut the Queens will come calling, mark it down.

His house in GB is still on the market. He can commute to Minny. His last act. De-railing that franchise's hope for an OWL for another year at least!

At this point in his career, I'm not too sure AR would handle pressure any better than Darnold did.

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@Pikes Peak posted:

MM and AR to New Orleans, please, make it happen.

What could  go rong ?

Lol but MM already removed himself from New Orleans HC gig. Bad roster, bad cap situation, he’d rather wait it out til next year.

With AR gone from the Jets could Davonte Adams be next?

@packerboi posted:

AR will have a hard time walking away from the spotlight agree. And his ego also doesn’t want this last year to be the kind of season he ends his career on either.

Now he may not have many options for a starting gig, but all it takes is 1 owner who’s convinced he can look like the AR of a few years ago.

AR had as good a season as Mahomes in 2024, probably a bit better, on a team [Jets] who have no idea what they are doing.

@GreenBayLA posted:

Lol but MM already removed himself from New Orleans HC gig. Bad roster, bad cap situation, he’d rather wait it out til next year.

My advice to him is he should take whatever he can get because he isn’t that good anyway and besides, he probably removed himself to make it look good because he knew he wasn’t getting the job to begin with

The only open QB position that would not be considered a major rebuild is Pittsburgh but I don't see any way Tomlin brings Rodgers in. Other than that, he's looking at the Titans, Browns, Raiders, and the Giants. Two of those teams are taking a QB high. Does Rodgers really play the last 1-2 years of his career for a bottom 5 team with no hopes at making the playoffs?

What does Shanahan think of him?  It would be very LAR-esque in a Goff-Stafford way for SF to replace Purdy with him.  I just don't know that AR has enough left to justify that move.

Pittsburgh, Minnesota or SF

Retirement. That's what I think he should do.

@CUPackFan posted:

The only open QB position that would not be considered a major rebuild is Pittsburgh but I don't see any way Tomlin brings Rodgers in. Other than that, he's looking at the Titans, Browns, Raiders, and the Giants. Two of those teams are taking a QB high. Does Rodgers really play the last 1-2 years of his career for a bottom 5 team with no hopes at making the playoffs?

I also would find it really hard to believe that Tomlin would bring him in.  Its a very un-Steeler thing to do.  And why would he go to any of those other teams? Is he wanted to go home and play for SF would the 49ers really go for a washed up Rodgers over Purdy at this point?  perhaps but I can't see it.

I would keep an eye on the Browns.  That team is desperate for a QB and they might do just about anything to get one even if it is someone on their last legs.

I would really enjoy that because my next door neighbor is from Cleveland, and he used to give me crap in Rodgers last year in GB.  I would get to return that favor if he went there and sucked for the Browns.

I can't see his big head fitting in anywhere but a team he thinks has a chance at success.

Didn’t he play OK the last half of the season or so?

What about the Vikings? I wonder if Devante follows AR to a new team or if he is looking for a long(er) term situation as he is getting into last contract territory.

I don’t think the Vikes need or can afford another receiver

I think Rodgers' time in New York has quelled the thoughts of him making a team an "instant contender".
Minny and SF, in that order, would give him the best chance of succeeding. But the Vikes still have to fix their OL to make that happen.
SF would need to improve theirs, and they need a RB to round out their offense.

@The Heckler posted:

I also would find it really hard to believe that Tomlin would bring him in.  Its a very un-Steeler thing to do.  And why would he go to any of those other teams? Is he wanted to go home and play for SF would the 49ers really go for a washed up Rodgers over Purdy at this point?  perhaps but I can't see it.

I would keep an eye on the Browns.  That team is desperate for a QB and they might do just about anything to get one even if it is someone on their last legs.

I would really enjoy that because my next door neighbor is from Cleveland, and he used to give me crap in Rodgers last year in GB.  I would get to return that favor if he went there and sucked for the Browns.

Stefanski’s job title for 2025 might as well be Tank Commander. The Browns aren’t poised to want to win a game and probably pining to be in the driver’s seat for Arch Manning.

@WolfPack posted:

Pittsburgh, Minnesota or SF

Pittsburgh is interesting.

That's the 1 place he isn't bigger than the Head Coach.

Steelers ain't winning anything with Russ Fields or Justin Wilson playing

@The Heckler posted:

I also would find it really hard to believe that Tomlin would bring him in.  Its a very un-Steeler thing to do. 

That's why they might do it

@Pikes Peak posted:

Didn’t he play OK the last half of the season or so?

He was clearly still at least a league-average QB and obviously can still read defenses well. If you were a Super Bowl contender and your starting QB went down in Week 15 next year, he'd be the first guy you'd probably call in. The example is Flacco with the Browns in 2023. Watson got hurt/sucked and the Browns were then trying to make the playoffs with Dorian Thompson-Robinson and PJ Walker under center. They saw that was not going to work, signed Flacco off the street and he went 4-1 down the stretch to make the playoffs.

2025 Rodgers is a lot better than 2023 Flacco (who was completely immobile even when he was young). The problem for Rodgers might be that the distractions he causes for a team might not be worth the benefit he would give them in that situation. It's not like Flacco was going on McAfee every week to make headlines or was on someone's short list to be a VP candidate. I think a comparison present-day Rodgers is ~2016 Kaepernik. Both guys were/are clearly better than some of the options that teams will end up going with next year or in 2016/17, both guys put up decent individual stats in their final year, but weren't/aren't good enough to win you enough football games to make putting up with all the distractions worth it.

That’s the problem I see with Rodgers.  He creates so much angst and drama  that when he’s not playing at a top tier level it’s actually counterproductive to have him around.  

The other issue is like LeBron James he only wants veteran players around him that want to kiss his ass.  You saw that even in Green Bay toward the end.  

@Tschmack posted:

That’s the problem I see with Rodgers.  He creates so much angst and drama  that when he’s not playing at a top tier level it’s actually counterproductive to have him around.  

The other issue is like LeBron James he only wants veteran players around him that want to kiss his ass.  You saw that even in Green Bay toward the end.  

I'm not a huge Lebron James fan, but other than the trade that he and his agent engineered where the Lakers traded 3 good role players on reasonable contracts (Caldwell-Pope, Harrell, and Kuzma) for a max contract ball-dominant guard who couldn't space the floor (Westbrook), James has conspired to make good personnel moves.

James did what he did to have a better chance to win more than to get veterans to kiss his ass, and it mostly worked out. Rodgers did what he did only to get guys to kiss his ass. LeBron is a much better GM.

LeBron getting Chris Bosh to join him and D-Wade in Miami was a good move. Forcing the Cavs to trade the #1 overall pick (Andrew Wiggins) for Kevin Love was a good move. Conspiring to extract Anthony Davis from the Pelicans was a good move. He supposedly didn't have anything to do with the Doncic trade, but that will work out for him as well.

With the exception of the D. Adams trade, when Rodgers forced moves it was to bring in guys that were washed up or just plain sucked. Hackett as OC. Geriatric Randall Cobb in GB and NY. Allan Lazard at 12 million a year. If Rodgers would have been more like LeBron he'd have been forcing trades for guys like Myles Garrett or Maxx Crosby.

https://www.si.com/nfl/jets-to...-he-wanted-to-return

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Perhaps he’ll find a third team to play for and get his HC fired mid-season.

If only Gutey and MLF had handled Rodgers the way Aaron Glenn is.

To be fair, Glenn isn't dealing with a QB who is a defending MVP.

Who won them their last SB and many other...games...over the last 16yrs.

@Boris posted:

https://www.si.com/nfl/jets-to...-he-wanted-to-return

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Not surprised Mr Ego said no to the above. He gets paid a lot to be on that show and removing himself from the show also means less spotlight on him.

Cant have that.  

Short of the Steelers, I don’t see a starting gig he’d agree to unless he wants to pull a Joe Flacco and just wait until a team loses their starting QB in 2025.  

A totally unreasonable demand by the Jets, designed because they didn't want Rodgers back; they knew he wouldn't be willing to give up his rights.  Kudos to AR.

The Jets are a loser organization and the new regime is following in those footsteps.

Besides that, both demands are strictly prohibited by the CBA.

@DurangoDoug posted:

Besides that, both demands are strictly prohibited by the CBA.

I don’t think it matters in this case. The Jets aren’t telling him to fulfill the remainder of his contract AND stop doing the Jackass McAfee show. They’re telling him to stop doing the show, start showing up for all of the training camp OR find another team to ruin.

Rodgers leadership has always been his achilles heal.  He has his little click of buddies but isn't a guy who galvanizes the whole team.  I look at LeBron and Brady as leaders who the whole team appeared to generally like and were happy to play for them.  They didn't bring in politics, conspiracies, etc.  If they had issues, they kept their issues behind closed doors.

It also solidifies the fact that AR is not reconsidering his off field distractions and is unwilling to change them for the better of a team.  Can't imagine somebody else signing him before TC unless there is still a fanboy owner out there.  Jets called his bluff so he showed his cards.

Rodgers was less a leader and more like the senior in the locker room who was the best player and looked down on everyone else and really just wanted heir adoration and worship. I don't think he was always that way but definitely shifted later in his career.

Just can't imagine any team willing to bring him in knowing that even the Jets thought his distractions outweighed his talent on the field.

I don’t think he wanted to play for the Jets next season anyway. All the Jets did here was make it easy for AR to walk away without looking like the bad guy. And I guess it lets Jets fans (and players) know that the organization is done dealing with distractions whether it’s true or not.

Rodgers can still win some games. The Jets also may not want that. They may be “contending” with the Browns next year.